Judge: Lawsuit saying Central American migrants are held in filthy, inhumane conditions can go forward
The Washington Post: Lawyers for undocumented Central American immigrants who have flocked to the United States since 2014 have won an early round in their legal battle to prove that the migrants were held in filthy, inhumane conditions at U.S. Border Patrol stations.
A federal judge in Arizona this week allowed a lawsuit over the alleged mistreatment to go forward and granted the case class-action status, which allows the lawyers to interview far more migrants and gather more evidence about their treatment. The Obama administration had sought to dismiss the case.
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